Improvement in corn-planters



C. A. KELLOGG.

Corn Planter.

Patented Nov. 24, 1868.

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Letters Patent No. 84,426, dated November 24, 1868.

IMIPROVEMENT IN CORN-PLAN'I'ERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may'concern:

Be it known that I, G. A. KELLOGG, of Elyria, in the county of Lorain, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corn-Planters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and complete description of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a side view of the planter.

ignre 2, a vertical section.

Figure 3, a detached section.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the difi'erent views.

The nature of this invention relates to a hand complanter, so constructed and arranged thatthe grain is dropped into the hill a distance apart so that the stalks will not crowd together, and hence facilitate the work of weeding and hoeing the corn; the same being an improvement of a former machine for which a patent was granted to me on the 4th day,of July, 1865.

In fig. 2, A represents a case or seed-box, of which B is the back, whereby the implement is carried by means of the handle 0.

D is a lever, proceeding from the lower end of which is a lug, E, whereby it is pivoted to the lower end of the case, at the point a, by means of a pin, which penetrates the sides of the box and the lug, as indicated by the dotted lines b, fig. 1. 4

To the front side of the lower end of the box is attached a pair of chutes or bills, F G, provided with deep flanges on each side.

To these bills is fitted a corresponding part or jaw, H, fig. 2, attached to the end of the lever, which, on being pressed toward the box, will cause them to distend or open, the purpose of which will hereinafter be shown.

To the rear side of the box is also attached a bill or chute, I, to which is fitted a corresponding part or jaw, J, attached to the inner end of the lug E, and whereby it is operated, conjointly with the jaws H referred to, by means of the lever D.

K, fig. 2, is the bottom of the seedeb'ox, in the middle of the front side of which is an opening, a. In said bottom is fitted a slide, L, provided with an opening, (1, corresponding in Size to the opening 0, and with which it is brought in-open relation, on bringing the lever to the position shown in fig. 2, as and for a purpose presently shown.

M'isa spring,..situated immediately at the rear end of the slide, and wherebyit is forced outward, thereby of the box, the slideL will be forced back into the box; the hole d will now be charged with corn, it having a holding-capacity oifrom three to five grains. on releasing the lever, it will be forced out to the posi- -tion shown in fig. 2, thereby bringing the opening d in the slide in open relation to that in the bottom, through which it will fall upon the 'upper edge of the lug E.'

The lug being slanting from the edge either way, and

also slanting backward to the bill'I, the grain will be I separated, some passing down the sides, into the two side bills F G, and some down the incline a into the bill I, and in which it lodges, in consequence of the jaws and bills being closed at the extreme lower end.

Now, on striking the bills into the earth, and then pressing the lever again against the case, the grain will be discharged into the ground, and at the same time the seed-cup or hole in the slide is forced back into the box and again filled with corn, which, on the closing of the bills and j aws, again drops into them as before, and therein held until the bills are thrust into the ground, andopened, as above described.

By this it will be seen that the act of discharging the grain into the ground forces the slide into the boxfor charging the cup with corn; hence, the operation of charging and discharging of the grain is continuous,

and at each and every time with an equal number of grains,.and which are distributed in the hill so that the stalks shall grow without crowding, thereby rendering the crop of easier and more thorough cultivation and I weeding.

What I claim as my invention, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The slide L and spring M, as arranged in combination with the lever D, for the purpose set forth.

2. The lug E, as arranged in combination with the chutes I, F, and G, and operated in the manner. as and for the purpose described.

Witnesses:

J. H. BURRIDG-E, FRANK S.- ALDEN.

o. A. KELLOGG. 

